Festival In Situ – Musiques en tous lieux

Listen differently in unusual places

The Festival In Situ – Musiques en tous lieux was born in 2024 from a desire by Césaré, National Center for Musical Creation in Reims, to rethink spaces for listening and meeting the public. This festival dedicated to exploratory music takes over heritage and unusual sites in Reims to offer unique and immersive sound experiences.

Heritage sites as stages

The originality of the Festival In Situ lies in the choice of its venues. Musicians embed their creations in the heart of new listening geographies:

• The towers of the Reims Cathedral: a majestic setting for concerts at height
• The stage of the Reims Opéra: an immersion on stage, up close to the artists
• The Foujita Chapel: an intimate setting for sound creations
• The ESAD Reims: the higher school of art and design as a field of experimentation

SONOBOX: an individual sound capsule

In 2025, the festival presented SONOBOX, a new and original creation: an individual sound capsule that plunges each user into the heart of sound for an unprecedented immersive experience. Inaugurated on April 3rd at ESAD Reims, this installation was then hosted in several locations in the city until the end of June: Saint-Ex (digital cultural center) and the libraries of Reims.

Césaré, National Center for Musical Creation

Césaré is one of the 8 national centers for musical creation located throughout France. Based in Bétheny, on the outskirts of Reims, Césaré's mission is to foster the emergence of original works at the crossroads of musical aesthetics and artistic disciplines, through a policy of residencies, production, and transmission.

A festival that rethinks collective listening

The Festival In Situ does more than just program concerts: it questions our relationship with sound and space. Each place becomes an instrument, each architecture a score. The public is invited to live renewed collective listening experiences, where music dialogues with Reims' heritage.